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Facebook Is Not Building a Phone

Mark Zuckerberg just said so, on stage, right now, at the Facebook mobile event. They’re instead, making their platform accessible on all phones.

Social Media Jason Chen

Over 70% of Android Phones Are Now Running Eclair or Froyo

How does Google determine Android version percentages? Why, by monitoring what phones accessed Market in the fortnight leading up to yesterday, November 1st. The figures aren’t going to be completely accurate (not everyone will have looked at the app store in those two weeks, for example), but when carriers take their sweet time releasing OTA…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Android Keyboard Interface 8pen Makes Swype Look Like a Breeze

I love seeing companies reinvent the wheel, but I’m not quite sure 8pen is the answer to any smartphone text input woes we might have. After all, we already know Swype is a worthy alternative, so do we need 8pen? https://gizmodo.com/how-to-pick-the-right-android-keyboard-for-you-5628945 I’m really not sure. After watching their demo video (below), I’m still a little…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The $45 a Month Verizon iPhone Hack

Can’t wait for a Verizon iPhone? No problem—you can get one now. Cheaper than AT&T’s borked handset, too. Yeah, we’re being creative with the term “iPhone,” but who cares. It works. The Hack With an iPod Touch in your pocket and a MiFi in your bag, you have a fully-functional, always-connected iOS device talking to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G Sleight of Hand

The next T-Mobile myTouch, which looks to be a fine phone, as T-Mobile’s first video-chatting Android phone, is being re-branded as the myTouch 4G. But it’s not really 4G. It’s pretty lame of them to call it that. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-is-t-mobiles-first-android-phone-with-5654657 The myTouch, along with the G2, are T-Mobile’s first phones to run with the HSPA+ networking…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

10 Ways to Fix Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 could be amazing. It’s not, yet. Right now, it’s a good start. This is what’s broken, and what Microsoft has to do to make it truly awesome. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-review-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-have-o-5668738 1. Multitasking for third-party apps—or at least fix the damn resume time Windows Phone 7 doesn’t have multitasking for third-party apps, even though every…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BlackBerry Bold 9780 Runs OS 6.0 and Has A Better Camera

Not much has changed between the 9700 and 9780, save for the jump from 3.2MP to 5MP camera, and the latest OS version it’s running, which is the multitasker OS 6.0 https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9700-impressions-small-and-chirpy-lik-5397391 There’s a tad more RAM too, going from 256MB to 512MB. It’s on sale globally from November, and while it’s not that different…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Meet The PlayStation Phone

Looks like the folks at Engadget got their hands on photos of something interesting: A PlayStation Phone. We’ve heard about this mysterious device in the past, but this is the first look at a prototype model. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-readying-an-android-3-0-playstation-phone-5610662 The phone apparently has a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 chip, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and support for…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Holy Cheap! Get a Froyo Phone For 30 Bones

Look, I’m not saying the LG Optimus T is the fanciest phone in the world. But it’s hard to argue with a $30 entry point to the latest and greatest version of Android. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-froyo-5543853 The T-Mobile offering requires a two-year contract and use of a $50 mail-in discount to hit the $30 mark, and the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Motorola StarTAC is Back, in Yellow

French company Lekki is doing something fun in the cellphone world, where every month a vintage phone will be reissued in a bright new hue. This month it’s 1996’s Motorola StarTAC, which is available now for $150. [Lekki via RetroToGo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Anti-Smartphone

Did John just out-simplify the Jitterbug by designing a phone that looks straight out of the late 1990s? Seems so: Called John’s Phone, this concept is as bare bones as they come. Take too quick a glance and you might confuse it with a beeper. The “address book” is a pad of paper and a…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Droid Pro Priced, Astronomically, On Verizon Web Site

There was a Droid Pro price tag sighting today. Exciting! However, if this BlackBerry-meets-Android smartphone is your thing, better pray the current price is a placeholder. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-pro-its-like-a-blackberry-impregnated-b-5656551 Either that, or start saving. Indeed, the $299 with contract asking price seems a bit high, and the $700 unsubsidized one is even higher. Smartphones aren’t cheap, of…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Dubious Image, XML Data Hint at HTC Knight for Sprint

Over at xda-developers there’s rumblings of an HTC Knight headed to Sprint. There’s even a generic, somewhat doctored-looking pic, which is always perfect fodder for the ol’ rumor mill. Updated. The xda-developers source claims this slider phone boasts a 3.7 inch screen (same as Nexus One), looks like an evo and has the same USB…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 Overclocked from 1GHz to Whopping 2GHz

Seriously, that’s got to hurt. Two forum-posters calling themselves Team DeFuse are claiming they successfully managed to overclock both the Droid 2 and Droid X, taking them from a decent 1.0GHz to spectacular 2.0GHz. We’d be concerned for their safety, if we hadn’t seen they survived the task at least long enough to upload video…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How Much Longer Is Sony Ericsson Going to Be Around?

Once upon time, Sony Ericson made the most awesome little cellphones. Lately, it’s been trying to sell high-end phones exclusively. But the phones suck, and Sony Ericsson’s moving less phones than ever, falling out of the top 5 brands. Given where it’s at in market share and profitability compared to everybody else, long running corporate…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nokia “Will No Longer Be Talking About Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 At All”

Did our words on why we’re not reviewing the N8 cut to the bone of Nokia? They’ve slipped an interesting fact into today’s financial report that they “will no longer be talking about Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 at all.” [Nokia Conversations] https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Flip Phones Made Cool: Japan’s Transparent X-Ray Phone

See-through things are cool. Anyone who ever pined for a transparent Game Boy (or was lucky enough to own one) knows that. Even if flippers are unfashionable, I still want to hotfoot it over to Japan to scoop this up. Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka’s x-ray phone is actually going on sale in Japan under the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Windows Phone 7 Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Ourselves a Race

Let’s just get it out of the way: Windows Phone 7 is the most exciting thing to happen to phones in a long time. There are a million reasons why Windows Phone 7 matters. It’s the most important PC company in the world, battered, bruised and badly lagging, coming back to the next generation of…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

The Most Popular Phone in the World

Nokia has problems. Smartphone problems. Software problems. American problems. But to fully understand what’s wrong, we’ve got to understand what’s been right, or to put in another way, what’s distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world. https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723 It has been said that more of the world’s population has access to a cellphone…

Tech News John Herrman

The Hideous BlackBerry Style 9670 Clamshell

Here is that clamshell BlackBerry. It’s a beautiful phone—if you are a Jersey Shore character. The official promo video music—with crap techno music from hell—gives it all away: https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-clamshell-9670-and-os-6-0-get-shown-off-on-v-5558912 Running on OS 6.0, the flipper has two screens—one 2.7-inch QVGA on the inside, and on the outside there’s a 2-inch QVGA. New messages and caller…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Facebook Is Not Building a Phone

Over 70% of Android Phones Are Now Running Eclair or Froyo

Android Keyboard Interface 8pen Makes Swype Look Like a Breeze

The $45 a Month Verizon iPhone Hack

T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G Sleight of Hand

10 Ways to Fix Windows Phone

BlackBerry Bold 9780 Runs OS 6.0 and Has A Better Camera

Meet The PlayStation Phone

Holy Cheap! Get a Froyo Phone For 30 Bones

The Motorola StarTAC is Back, in Yellow

The Anti-Smartphone

Droid Pro Priced, Astronomically, On Verizon Web Site

Dubious Image, XML Data Hint at HTC Knight for Sprint

Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 Overclocked from 1GHz to Whopping 2GHz

How Much Longer Is Sony Ericsson Going to Be Around?

Nokia “Will No Longer Be Talking About Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 At All”

Flip Phones Made Cool: Japan’s Transparent X-Ray Phone

Windows Phone 7 Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Ourselves a Race

The Most Popular Phone in the World

The Hideous BlackBerry Style 9670 Clamshell

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